Rene Magritte (René François Ghislain Magritte) Quotes
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I love improvising.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
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We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect with your spouse, you get it going right.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
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What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
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You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.
